Hey! My Dad needs a new computer for his work, he works with Auto Cad, Visi, MasterCam... and probably he is using all at the same time so he needs a fast cpu and a lot of ram...
He has about 800~900 euros to spend so i was thinking on this:

Amd FX 8320 or intel I5
8 to 16gb of ram
A nice motherboard and a enough psu
1TB hard drive
About the GPU honestly i dont know but the he uses 2 24" screens.

Thanks for the quick reply but workstation card here in Portugal are really expensive and the cheapest costs almost 500 euros so i was thinking on a regular card something like HD7870 or GTX 660. I didn´t choose a i7 because of the same reason but like you said amd are better.

In that case I would look for the card with the most mature driver set. Workstation cards are pricey because of the general quality and error tolerances put into the drivers. Perhaps a 6000 or 500 series?

In that case I would look for the card with the most mature driver set. Workstation cards are pricey because of the general quality and error tolerances put into the drivers. Perhaps a 6000 or 500 series?

yeah i go with 16gb or maybe more btw he usually dont turn off the computer because he run programs all night so he need a nice cpu cooler.
I dont know about the ssd and raid stuff but all the data stored on the hard drive

Its mainly for 3D applications, he is using a GT540M and usually dont have problem, well sometimes crashes and screen stop responding

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But did he ever try a workstation card and see if he can benefit from it? I had major issues with Solidworks (driver and performance problems) until I got myself a workstation card and have no crashes with great performance.

I think you should really consider it (first check if the programs actually benefit from it which I think they do), even used cards are usually in good condition since they were used in workstations and aren't overclocked.

But if there is no benefit (or it's not that important) then a guess a normal GPU should do good, but just keep in mind that pretty much all 3D can be done on the GPU so it's sometimes more important than the CPU

You should be fine with a consumer graphics card, but If you can find an ATI FirePro v4800 or v4900 for around $200 then I would go that route.. I can get the v4800 for $159.99 and the v4900 for $164.99 @ newegg.com. Does he do a lot of assemblies? I know my v5200 really shines on big assembly drawings. If he isn't going to be making assemblies via Autodesk Inventor or Solidworks then he should be fine with a consumer grade, but if he is then I would go workstation card. I'd also invest in a good SSD, and backup the SSD onto the 1tb mech drive nightly.

Looks like in his company doesn´t like Amd cpu don´t ask me why he said that amd was giving to many problems in past... intel fan boys

He going to use some cloud system so he doesn´t need a big disk just a fast SSD, and his pc is 24/7 on so needs a nice cooling system on cpu. Since buying a workstation card is hard he needs a good consumer gpu.

I would go with the Quadro 2000 card (about $200 USD). It is reasonably priced and does a good job. I have no issues with 2D or 3D rendering. I looked into consumer cards like a 7950 but they are a bit overkill and I would have needed to get a much larger power supply instead of the 350W that I have. Also an SSD is a huge help with speed and productivity. All my files are saved on the server and accessed there. It used to take AutoCAD forever to open with a HDD.